port 53 under attack

Thu Jun 4 01:59:35 UTC 2015

On 06/03/2015 04:57 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-06-03 at 19:03 -0400, joeb1 wrote:
>> Hello list
>> :
>> My firewall blocks unsolicited inbound traffic on port 53. I realize 
>> this is the DNS port. But I am getting over 200K  hits per day from ip 
>> addresses from all over the world. My host has a dynamic ip address. Is 
>> there any valid reason for this to be happening?
> You could be used as a DOS amplifier.
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Are you running an open DNS server?